This chapter opens with a soliloquy by the narrator, in which he laments the fact that his daughter is stuck in a brothel with a "monster like you" . The narrator then goes on to say that the brothel owner and the madam are both "speaking some harsh words" about the girl, and that the girl's "dance skills" have made her a "waste of her potential" , and she should be sold to a rich family so that she can "live a better life"